In this episode, Mike Pekovich cuts the through-tenons in his hanging wall cabinet and demonstrates his methods for fitting them. He also shares his tips for accurate handsawing and his overall build strategies and how they affect accuracy in everything he builds.

In this episode of his Hanging Wall Cabinet video workshop, Mike Pekovich adds muntins and proud pins to the door, adding even more detail to the cabinet. He also gives some insight into why he includes these subtle details in his designs.

About This Video Workshop

I teach quite a bit and this wall cabinet is probably one of my favorite things to teach. It's not that big of a piece, but it packs in a ton of woodworking information. There's dovetailed case construction, through mortise-and-tenon joinery, a traditional dovetailed drawer, and a frame-and-panel door. Between all those things, that's 90 percent of the things that you need to know to build just about any piece of furniture. There are a… More about this Video Workshop

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Not if your chisel is sharp and you have the tool setup correctly. You will probably finish the mortise with your chisel to fine tune the shoulders anyway.
That being said, not many have the hollow mortise chisel, sometimes I wish I did. I think though that this is an exercise in hand tool technique.

Even set up properly my HCM does not leave a nice clean "entry wound"...usually a shadow of the drill bit leaving a small crescent outside of the wall. If you need to clean them up anyway the drill press is probably easier. My HCM is best suited to blind mortises...but it might just be my machine (Benchtop Jet).

Inspiring work to say the least. Just curious...I notice that when you measure and mark with a ruler, rather than keeping the ruler stationary and using the ruler markings to guide your pencil mark, you slide the ruler to a new position and then choose a mark. What are you doing and how does this help? Thanks!